Super Soul Special: Cheryl Strayed: Brave Enough

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Original Air Date: December 4, 2017 The New York Times best-selling author Cheryl Strayed talks to Oprah about her book "Brave Enough," a collection of her own quotes, which Cheryl describes as a "mini instruction manual for the soul." Cheryl also says the book urges readers toward their own "incredible capacity for love, compassion and forgiveness." Cheryl's best-selling memoir, "Wild," which recounted her spiritual journey hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, was an Oprah's Book Club selection and was adapted into the critically acclaimed film starring Reese Witherspoon.

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey.
0:02.4	Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast.
0:06.5	I believe that one of the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time.
0:12.2	Taking time to be more fully present.
0:15.9	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right now.
0:24.7	Cheryl Strait's best-selling book Wild, captivated millions of readers, and inspired an Oscar-nominated film.
0:32.1	Cheryl's memoir details her harrowing 1,100-mile trek.
0:43.1	On the Pacific Crest Trail, her quest to reclaim her shattered life after her mother's death resonated deeply with readers.
0:46.3	Four months after Wilde was published, Cheryl released another bestseller called Tiny Beautiful
0:52.2	Things.
0:53.5	It's a compilation of the popular online advice columns
0:56.9	she wrote under the pin name Sugar. Cheryl's willingness to reveal her own struggles in order
1:02.4	to help her readers won her a passionate and devoted following. Cheryl's powerful, deeply
1:09.0	personal quotes are some of the most shared, tweeted, and memed on social media.
1:15.0	Cheryl calls, quotes, many instruction manuals for the soul.
1:19.2	They are the heart of her latest bestseller, Brave Enough.
1:23.1	So it was four years ago we were right here.
1:25.7	Yeah.
1:26.2	And I remember saying to you, you're going to have enough money to not, because you was like,
1:31.7	oh, I just want to have my own office.
1:33.6	You don't even know how poor I was when I sat with you.
1:38.6	I was in huge credit card debt, had student loans, my student loans that I was paying.
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